The singer Bad Bunny will be the protagonist of El Muerto, the new film from Sony and Marvel.
Bad Bunny He wants to expand his career and in addition to music, now he is also looking to conquer the cinema. The singer joins Marvel where he will lead the cast of El Muerto, the new film being prepared by Sony Pictures and which will be released in theaters in January 2024.
In this way, the artist will be the first Latino actor to star in a Marvel action movie, which has generated debate on social networks.
The Puerto Rican singer also made a brief appearance on Cinema Withwhich is held in Las Vegas, to announce this new adaptation of a superhero from the Marvel factory.
Juan Carlos Estrada Sanchez is The dead man in Marvel comics, a masked fighter whose strength lies precisely in that mask, inherited by his family for generations, says the Marvel website.
“Bringing ‘The Dead’ to life is just incredible,” stated the president of Sony Pictures, Sanford Panitch, at the presentation of the film, according to the specialized media Variety.
In some of the comic stories, The dead man has interacted with Spider-Manwith which he starred in a fight in which the Latino superhero was about to unmask Spider-Man.
But after Spider-Man and the dead man teamed up to fight El Doradothe villain who controls the powers of Juan Carlos and responsible for the death of his father.
It should be noted in the animated world if there was already a Latino Spiderman, it is Miles Morales, from “Spider-Man: A New Universe” (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, 2018).
And although Bad Bunny is the first Latino protagonist of Marvel cinema, at the moment the series can be seen on Disney + “Moon Knight”starring the Guatemalan Oscar Isaac. In addition, the MCU has other Latin names such as Salma Hayek, that gave life to Ajak, the leader of the “Eternals”.